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South American Journals: January-July 1960

South American Journals: January-July 1960

Ginsberg, Allen
Schumacher, Michael

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0816699615
ISBN13: 9780816699612
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Nov 19 2019
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The great Beat poet's observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be another experience in the Beat poet's journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing--whether in the poetry that had already earned him international acclaim or in the idiosyncratic journals that raised self-documentation to a new form of art. In his South American Journals, covering a tumultuous six months, Ginsberg describes his travels through Chile and Peru, his visit to Machu Picchu, and his search for a source for ayahuasca, or yagé, a mind-expanding drug recommended by his friend William S. Burroughs, another writer well traveled in altered states of consciousness.

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